In addition to Johnson, “The Peanut Butter Falcon” stars Shia LaBeouf (American Honey, Transformers, Lawless) and two time Academy Award® nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska, The Hateful Eight.) The movie follows a down on his luck crab fisherman as he embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wresting school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived most of his life.

The film is written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz (The Moped Diaries) and stars newcomer Zachary Gottsagen (Becoming Bulletproof), who is the inspiration for the film.